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Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 28, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
June 23, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
February 18, 2008	Featured article review	Demoted
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Section sizes

Section size for Cape Town (47 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	13,424	13,424
History	65	29,674
Early period	2,587	2,587
Dutch period	2,616	2,616
British period	6,077	6,077
South African period	1,593	18,329
Apartheid era	6,982	6,982
Post-apartheid era	9,754	9,754
Geography and the natural environment	1,748	37,014
Extent	7,127	7,127
Geology	2,212	2,212
Climate	8,133	13,268
Climate change	5,135	5,135
Hydrology	132	2,997
Sea surface temperatures	2,865	2,865
Flora and fauna	9,662	9,662
Government	3,840	7,772
International relations	1,533	3,932
2022 invasion of Ukraine	2,399	2,399
Demographics	13,686	26,034
Religion	6,121	6,121
Crime	6,227	6,227
Economy	7,156	27,192
Major companies	4,771	4,771
Inequality	3,059	3,059
Tourism	12,206	12,206
Infrastructure and services	1,560	32,893
Health	1,477	1,477
Education	5,590	5,590
Water supply	694	2,956
Water crisis of 2017 to 2018	2,262	2,262
Transport	17	21,310
Air	3,568	3,568
Sea	5,300	5,300
Rail	928	928
Road	5,206	5,206
Buses	214	2,431
MyCiTi	2,217	2,217
Taxis	3,860	3,860
Culture	4,659	21,508
Cuisine	2,986	2,986
Media	5,041	5,041
Sport and recreation	8,822	8,822
See also	145	145
Notes	26	26
References	9,886	9,886
External links	1,204	1,204
Total	206,772	206,772

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Description of the settlement of cape town 102.249.0.210 (talk) 09:32, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

External links

@Wesley olis: you have communicated with me via email to complain about this edit. Such discussions should be held on the talk page of the article and not by email.

I removed a large accumulation of external links in keeping with the policy WP:LINKFARM ("Wikipedia is not ... a repository of links") and Wikipedia:External links. There are, no doubt, hundreds of thousands of links potentially relevant to Cape Town but we don't list them all at the end of the article.

If you disagree with my edit you can revert it and then further discussion can take place here amongst the editors of this article. See WP:Bold, revert, discuss. - htonl (talk) 19:04, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

History section is a bit of a mess

I think the post-aparthied history section of this article is a bit of a mess. It seems to contain significant content that is not, yet, history and is very much a part of the present. There are at least two passages that likley should be moved to other, better suited, sections of the article. Such as:

"The Democratic Alliance (DA), a liberal political party which came to power in Cape Town in 2006, has been credited with improving bureaucratic efficiency, public safety and fostering economic development. Opinion polls show that South Africans see it as the best governed province and city in the country. Of South Africa’s 257 municipalities, only 38 received a clean financial audit in 2022 from the Auditor-General. Of those, 21 were in the Western Cape. "

This section should rather be moved to the politics section, it is not yet history but seems more like current affairs.

And:

"The legacy of apartheid's spatial planning is still evident, with significant disparities between affluent areas and impoverished townships. 60% of the city's population live in townships and informal settlements far from the city centre. The legacy of Apartheid means Cape Town remains one of the most racially segregated cities in South Africa. Many Black South Africans continue to live in informal settlements with limited access to basic services such as healthcare, education, and sanitation. The unemployment rate remains high at 23% (though nearly 10 points lower than the nationwide average), particularly among historically disadvantaged groups, and economic opportunities are unevenly distributed."

This section should rather be moved to either the Infrastructure and services section or the Geography section of the article, also because it is current affairs and not yet history. -- Discott (talk) 19:30, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree mostly with the first point as the content discussed is very current affairs-specific, but I feel like the part about apartheid's present-day impacts belongs at the end of the History section as a sort of segue. It should be made more specific and historically-focused, sure, but at its heart it is about a historical period and its impacts on present-day Cape Town. That portion also wouldn't fit well with any other content currently in the Geography or Infrastructure and Services sections (not necessarily a reason to keep in History, but still worth mentioning). SunTunnels (talk) 02:19, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]